"Where do you think it manages to help achieve? I have to admit I am curious as to what you think of this niche power..."
My eyes continued to alternate between icy and hot while my brain decided it wanted to wiggle around like an actual noodle as the effects of this 'niche power' she just taught to showed their aftereffects.
"Uh... Gods this hurts... I guess maybe it lets you see... soone's power level or sothing..? Help see if they have enchanted items on them or how tattooed they might be?"
Rubbing my temples, I groaned again before sending a gentle wave of cool air across my face as I tried to get rid of my pain as best I could, and as I was soothing myself Lilith said "Technically you aren't wrong, Katherine, but there was sothing else I was going to say... though perhaps you've never co across one yourself..? They are rather rare..."
She had reached over and was stroking my ears to comfort , the Demoness bringing out her motherly side as she idly stood beside , staring out into the infested forest while various thoughts fluttered around inside her head.
"Have you ever co across a Gate, Katherine? Those... portals that lead directly into the Labyrinthian?"
The pain had faded enough that I could open up my eyes and look over at the black skinned woman without having to split my focus between not hurting and what she was saying; hearing the word 'Gate' gave pause though as I wondered where this was going.
"Ah, you have. Or at least you know what they are. The true purpose of what I just taught you - looking past these illusions made by the world itself - was originally sothing the powerful and influential mages of the past used to use to understand these Gates.
They weren't as random as people wanted to believe, and they always had a purpose. Sotis they opened in places that made no sense, other tis they appeared in the middle of the largest cities to level them completely... That seems like it is random, no?"
I nodded, and the Demoness chuckled and continued to ruffle my ears as she idly stared at the forest, her eyes distant as she continued to parse through her mories while discussing this with .
"Well, it wasn't. When you look deeper at those locations, all of them had sothing integral to that day and age. Materials dried up quickly in the mountains it appeared at, influential people died in those attacks, cities were razed to the ground just as they were making strides into massive improvents that would stabilize that area...
There was to much chaos being caused by each to just be coincidence, and way back when those of us with the knowhow could determine just how strong each Gate would be. What would co out of it, where it was coming from, if it was going to be here for long... Forgotten knowledge because those of us who knew how to read the Gates all died. Even the Empress struggled with it, to no fault of her own though; her path just ensured she was incapable of this feat.
Besides, if you were strong enough there was no need to read the Gates because you could resist them anyways, so she likely forgot about it in general because there was no need for it, not for her, for Klaki, for Ter'Ran...
Ah, I'm rambling... The point is, Katherine, there are more things that this 'random' place does on purpose than it does at random. People love to say that the Labyrinthian is a place where chaos and randomness thrive in overabundance, and yet I believe it is controlled chaos. Everything is done with a purpose. All these bios have a purpose; they are each a specific part of a very particular puzzle."
"That's..."
It was a lot of information that was dumped on , all in a sowhat jumbled yet understandable ss as the Demoness took one last look at the forest before turning away and walking down the hill, leaving with that as I wondered if it had anything to do with her reason for bringing us here.
She seed adamant that the Labyrinthian was a puzzle and not random; that ant set pieces that got shuffled around to new places instead of new bios sprouting up whenever they felt like it, and that ant that there was definitely sothing at work here that wasn't what it seed.
On top of that, there was a clear use of this skill that she bestowed upon , sothing that she wanted to do going forwards with it that the others couldn't manage... though Leone had just as much control as I did, so why ..?
Nothing that this Demoness did ever made sense, and the more information she gave the less I understood about everything, though I suppose that was par for the course considering more knowledge only ever ant more questions...
"Fascinating stuff, hm? I might not be the brightest in the world, Kitty~ Kat~, but I definitely~ can tell you that this Demoness is holding back a whole lot of even more fascinating things from you. But hey, she surely has a purpose behind it, no~?"
Cali appeared beside and gave a peck on the cheek, and after a mont of floating she leaned closer and whispered "But let's ignore that for now, hm-? How are you going to deal with this arousal that's bubbling within you~? And how are you going to fulfill our deal, my sexy~ puppy~?"
Her hand landed on my waist as she asked that, and my breath hitched as I kept my eyes on the forest, the warmth spilling out of her palm turning on so much as I was forced to acknowledge the thing that was making so worried about our ti here; I was horny, and I had a very large bane to my plentiful boons alongside a contract I needed to fulfill...
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